buss bar?

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Topic: buss bar?

Posted By: imupabove
Subject: buss bar?
Date Posted: October 18, 2009 at 5:56 PM

hello. i have a brand new 4/8 gauge Rockford buss bar. what can i do with it? can someone please tell me what it for or an example.

it has (3) 4 gauge inputs/(4) 8 gauge outputs.

thanks people.

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Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: October 18, 2009 at 7:21 PM

It sounds to me like you have a Distribution block. It is designed to be fed with a single 4 Ga. and you can run 4 separate 8 Ga. wires to your amplifiers. There are 3 input locations for the 4 Ga. only for versatility.

Posted By: imupabove
Date Posted: October 18, 2009 at 7:25 PM

no its a buss bar. that is what it says on the box. posted_image

its the one on the right.

Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: October 18, 2009 at 7:32 PM

Looks a LOT like a fused distribution block to me.

Posted By: spmpdr
Date Posted: October 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM

i am an idiot wrote:

Looks a LOT like a fused distribution block to me.

Thats exactly what it is,I had one of those in my system running to (2) amps I didnt like using the 8 awg though it just didnt look good,I like the big o/1 to 4 awg wires showing.

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Posted By: spmpdr
Date Posted: October 19, 2009 at 9:39 AM

You can also use it to link capacitors together.

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: October 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM

Or as a fishing weight. Those work well as fishing weights.

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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: October 19, 2009 at 10:29 AM

DYohn] wrote:

Or as a fishing weight. Those work well as fishing weights.

...or as an anchor for a very small boat.

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Posted By: KPierson
Date Posted: October 19, 2009 at 11:23 AM

A perfect example as to when to use the above fused distribution block is when you are running two cheap amps off of one 4 ga cable. Generally, cheap amps don't have fuses on the amp itself (which aren't actually 100% required) and that is why I specified cheap amps. With the above device you can add fuses sized specifically to the amps you are using so when the amp fails (remember, we're talking about cheap amps here) it will hopefully only blow the one smaller fuse instead of the larger (and more expensive) fuse under the hood.

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